I was working on a project for XML Parsing. I came across instances where my
elements were completely missing.
After further Digging into the issue, I found out, that when placing tags
inside of an element with text, SimpleXML (and dom Document) ignore the
added tags, and the text within.
Heres an example.
-----------ok.xml-----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Document>
<Article>
<Title pagenum="84" docname="Career Path mar 08">Is Your
Face on Facebook? </Title>
<Subtitle>Employ simple strategies to market your ?profile?
using online social networking.</Subtitle>
<Body>Temp Testing Example of SimpleXML Bug.<b>Is it a bug
though?</b></Body>
<Folio>Trying to just show Examples</Folio>
</Article>
</Document>
-----------ok.xml-----------------
-----------ok.php-----------------
<?php
$file = file_get_contents('ok.xml');
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($file);
print_r($xml);
print $xml->Article->Body->b . "\n";
-----------ok.php-----------------
-----------output-----------------
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[Article] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[Title] => Is Your Face on Facebook?
[Subtitle] => Employ simple strategies to market your ?profile?
using online social networking.
[Body] => Temp Testing Example of SimpleXML Bug.
[Folio] => Trying to just show Examples
)
)
Is it a bug though?
-----------output-----------------
Furthermore if I place <b> tags at the beginning of of the <Body> tags
ie.
<Body><b>Testing</b>Temp Testing Example of SimpleXML Bug.<b>Is it a bug
though?</b></Body>
The text between the </b> and <b> is ignored and is output as follows..
-----------output---------------
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[Article] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[Title] => Is Your Face on Facebook?
[Subtitle] => Employ simple strategies to market your ?profile?
using online social networking.
[Body] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[b] => Array
(
[0] => Testing
[1] => Is it a bug though?
)
)
[Folio] => Trying to just show Examples
)
)
Testing
-----------output---------------
The above output is using ok.php.
Is this working as intended?
